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Date:	Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:52:51 -0400
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On 07/07/2015 07:29 PM, John Doty wrote:
>>> The international language of science 200 years ago was Latin.
>>> This wasn’t because it had any great virtue. It was a historical
>>> accident.
>>> 
>>> Similarly, we are having this discussion in English. Another
>>> historical accident. This is hardly a perfect choice, but other
>>> choice would exclude more people than English does.
>>> 
>>> For common effort, you choose the common language. Once, in
>>> technical computing, this was Fortran, Back a few decades I wrote
>>> a lot of Fortran although it was not my favorite language. I was,
>>> however, building on other people’s work, and they on mine:
>>> Fortran was the only sensible choice.
>>> 
>>> What is it these days? Well, I know a lot of people who use a lot
>>> of different languages, but the one that a majority can use
>>> effectively is Python. People who prefer obscure languages like
>>> IDL can also use Python. People who prefer C++ can do it, too.
>>> Heck, even people who think Clojure is the greatest ever language
>>> for the cool people can get work done in Python.
>> 
>> Sounds to me like...you like Python.
> 
> Not especially. I hardly ever use it for work that isn’t
> collaboration with somebody else. I prefer AWK for simple stuff,
> Mathematica for hairy stuff, C for low level, LSE (obscure Forth
> dialect) for scripting (especially embedded). But I won’t push any of
> those for geda-gaf scripting.
> 
>> 
>> There are a lot of people who don’t.
> 
> I think you’ll find that true of every programming language. Not a
> good discriminant.

  Of course, but I think you see my point.  If we're waiting for the
light to go on above everyone's head and all of us to agree on what
language gEDA is to magically get translated into, it's not likely to
happen.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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